PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 September 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cable states that Viscount Grey has sailed for New York. Archdeacon Evans was a passenger to Auckland by the Rarawa on Saturday. A Melbourne cable reports the death of Rear-Admiral Tickell, director of Navy reserves. Mr. C. A. Wilkinson, M.P. for Egmont, motored to Eltham frem Wellington on Saturday. He returns by mail train this morning. Mr. St. Clair Jounneaux, of ICamo, Whangarei, spent Friday and Saturday in New Plymouth, going north by the Rarawa on Saturday night. Messrs J. S. Connett, A. Morton, and J. Brown, who have been to Wellington on business connected with the dairying and freezing industry, returned on Saturday by motor. Mr. Fraser, engineer to the Whangarei Harbor Board, is on a visit to New Plymouth, looking into matters in connection with the harbor improvement scheme.'

Mr. H. W. Hemingway, of Auckland, iwlio is at present in Australia on a health trip, has forwarded his resignation as lecturer in accountancy and commercial law at the Auckland University College. The letter conveying the resignation, read at the last meeting of the college council, stated that throat trouble would prevent him continuing his lectures. The council received his resignation with regret, recording his appreciation of the services rendered to the college by Mr., Hemingway, and expressing regret, at the cause which compelled him to resign. The resignation will take efl'ect six months hence.

Mr. John Gittos, who died at Devonport last week, aged 74, was at ono time in business iu Auckland as a leather merchant, being a member of the firm bearing the name of dittos, and established in Auckland many years ago. He was a brother of the well-known and highly-esteemed Maori Methodist pioneer missionary, the Rev. William Gittos, who died in May, 191(1. Mr. John Gittos at one time belonged to t!:e Methodist Church, but he afterwards adopted the Presbyterian Church. He was an elder of St. Stephen's Presbyterian Church, Ponsonby, and was engaged in Sunday school teaching for about 50 years.